Does anyone think that the character Gloria is any kind of reference to the Them song?

[Peel Slowly And See]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bpsp7Nm7yY

I think it could be.

[Nobody_Likes_You]

I just think Gloria is a reference to glory and so on. Billie Joe explained it.

Don't know if your right, but I doubt it and I think we'll never know

[Arnold Rimmer]

It's an homage to Flashdance.

[Juan]

I initially thought of Patti Smith

[Peel Slowly And See]

I initially thought of Patti Smith

You do realize that Patti Smith is covering the song by Them, right?

[Juan]

You do realize that Patti Smith is covering the song by Them, right?

after I watched the video yes

[rage-love-life]

Nah, I think that Billie just felt like using Gloria cause he liked it a lot, not because of this song.

[Guest Shangri-La]

Nooooooo!!

i think he got the double meaning of it from the kinks.

"land of hope and the gloria, land of my victoria"

.... that was my assumption at least.

You do realize that Patti Smith is covering the song by Them, right?

holy shit. i've been living a lie. all these years i thought it was the other way around..

[BadgerLALA]

I thought she was a new version of Whatsername.